If you receive a lot of emails that you do not wish to read, you may want to mark all of them as read in your Gmail. Learn the various options to perform this important email management task
Option 1: Mark All Emails as Read (Desktop)
Follow the steps below to mark all email as read:
- Login to your Gmail account. Your inbox will open by default.
- Next, on the left hand side scroll down to All Mail and click on it.
- Then, click the arrow pointing downwards beside the check box above all emails. (highlighted in the image above). Select Unread. All Unread emails will be selected. See the second image below.
- Finally, to mark all emails as read on Gmail click the 5th icon (counting from left to right, in red above).
All emails are now marked as Read!
Some of my readers have asked me how they can mark all Gmail emails as read on Android or iPhone. Unfortunately, you cannot mark all emails as read on your mobile device. However, you can mark selected emails as Read on Gmail app for Android or iOs.
Option 2: Mark Some Emails as Read (Gmail App)
The demo in this section was done with a Samsung Galaxy S9 on Android version 9. Some screenshots may differ from yours.
Here are the steps:
- Open Gmail app on your mobile device.
- Next, on the search bar on top, type the following “label:all mail is:unread” (without the quotes) as shown below:
- Then click on the circle beside each email you wish to mark as read. Finally, on top of your Gmail App, click the 3rd icon from left.
You can use the above steps for Gmail for iOS App as well.
Conclusion
I hope you have been able to organize your Gmail with this guide. Kindly share your thoughts about this guide using the “Was this page helpful” question below.
